Yakima Times

Central Washington University Mathematics Professor Dominic Klyve has  been honored with two high-profile national awards, helping bring  well-deserved recognition to the

university and his department.

Earlier this summer, Klyve received the 2022 Mid-Career Faculty  Mentoring Award by the Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) and the  Paul R. Halmos-Lester R. Ford Award

by the Mathematical Association of  America.

Klyve was nominated for the CUR Faculty Mentoring award by Brandy  Wiegers, CWU’s director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, for  mentoring more than 60

undergraduate researchers over the course of his  13-year career at the university. Those mentorships led to the  publication of seven interdisciplinary papers, and his collaborativ

 research projects have been published in journals such as Shakespeare  Quarterly to Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Klyve says one of his favorite things about math is its potential to influence every other course of study.

“Once you see math, you start seeing it absolutely everywhere, which  we all know on some level,” he said. “We know somebody had to sit down  and do some serious math to

figure out the timing of traffic lights, or  the precise angle a highway exit ought to have. There’s math in these  places, and one of the great joys of studying math is getting t

encounter it more and more often.”

The Paul R. Halmos-Lester R. Ford Award honors outstanding writing in  mathematics. This year, Klyve and co-author Erik R. Tou took home the  prize for their paper “A Prime

Testing Algorithm from Leonhard Euler,”  published in The American Mathematical Monthly.

The research study explored Euler’s process for determining whether a  given number is prime—believed to be the earliest prime testing method  not based on simply dividing the

number in question by every other  number. Klyve said he is fascinated by Euler’s work, and he looks  forward to additional research opportunities in the field.

“It is an honor and a pleasure to receive this award from the MAA,”  Klyve and Tou said in a joint statement. “Leonhard Euler’s number theory  has been a long-standing interest to

both of us and we very much  enjoyed the historical and mathematical paths this paper took us down.  Euler’s work is but one piece of a larger puzzle, which we look forward  to

exploring in the future.”

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